High CPU without cams

[coldventura]

I recently acquired a used Optiplex 7050 with a i5 6500 CPU to pair with my 2 Hikvision cameras that I've been using without an NVR for the past year. After installing Blue Iris as a VM in Proxmox and then attempting to use it bare metal, I'm seeing significant CPU usage even without any cameras added on a fresh Windows 10 installation.

I've followed the guides for reducing CPU usage (with and without the cameras added), of course it's lower without them but hitting near 100% CPU usage when allocated 2 cores and no cameras seems odd to me.

Edit: Prior to purchasing the Optiplex I tested BI as a VM on my PC and it seemed fine even when allocated even a single core and 2GB of memory.

 

[alastairstevenson]

What does windows task manager show for the offending high CPU processes?

 

[coldventura]

What does windows task manager show for the offending high CPU processes?

The Blue Iris application

 

[wittaj]

Not sure what impact it has a VM in Proxmox, but I am leaning towards that or some driver issue associated with the VM.

Even a 4th gen running BI with no cameras enabled will sit at 0%.

I assume because you are using a VM that you plan to use the box for other things? For testing assign the entire CPU to BI and see what happens.

Maybe try to delete and reinstall BI?

 

[coldventura]

Not sure what impact it has a VM in Proxmox, but I am leaning towards that or some driver issue associated with the VM.

Even a 4th gen running BI with no cameras enabled will sit at 0%.

I assume because you are using a VM that you plan to use the box for other things? For testing assign the entire CPU to BI and see what happens.

Maybe try to delete and reinstall BI?

I also tried installing it bare metal on Windows 10 and had more than 0% usage without cameras, both were completely fresh installs of Windows and BI

 

[wittaj]

Something is certainly wrong!

By fresh installs, I assume you mean with the Windows Media Creation Tool that eliminates the computer manufacturer bloatware, or was it a "fresh" install from the recovery on the drive?

 

[coldventura]

Something is certainly wrong!

By fresh installs, I assume you mean with the Windows Media Creation Tool that eliminates the computer manufacturer bloatware, or was it a "fresh" install from the recovery on the drive?

Yeah. I'm not sure what's causing it, I've even tried Windows Server

 

[atgpud2024]

I highly suggest not use VM machine running BI.. Need to be directly Windows 10, 11 or Windows Server 2019 or later and good Video card like Nivida or Intel Arc..

I am currently running Xeon 14 cores + 14 Threading (28 cores total), 32GB ECC RAM, (2) 1TB SSD (RAID level 1) and (1) 256GB SSD NMVe Cache and temp storage and (1) 512GB NMVe for Windows Server 2022 STD and BlueIris 5.9.xx (lastest). Also Nvidia GeForce GT 710 1GB (to use GPU)..

ATGPUD2024